toadstool
Americannoun
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any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
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a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.
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any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.
noun
Etymology
Origin of toadstool
First recorded in 1350–1400, toadstool is from the Middle English word tadstol. See toad, stool
Example Sentences
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I couldn’t see anything but a few little toadstools that had jumped up through the damp earth.
From Literature
Where he planted mushrooms, entire toadstools were reborn as great as boulders.
From Literature
The vast glass-domed exhibition space became a wonderland, with pink weeping willows and oversized toadstools adorning the runway.
From BBC
Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.
Is it a “fruiting body,” better known as the toadstool, that emerges from the ground in a panoply of shapes and textures?
From Los Angeles Times
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